volage
English edit
Etymology edit
From Old French volage, from Latin volāticus.
Adjective edit
volage (comparative more volage, superlative most volage)
- (archaic) Fickle, capricious, reckless.
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Manciple's Prologue and Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales:
- When Phoebus' wife had sent for her leman,
Anon they wroughten all their lust volage.
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French volage, from Latin volāticus.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
volage (plural volages)
Further reading edit
- “volage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French edit
Adjective edit
volage m (oblique and nominative feminine singular volage)